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In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Bonus points if there's a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 62 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nothing more fancy in Boston than "snow".

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah that's a common one, I wonder if it would seen as more or less commonly like that depending on how cold the local climate is.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

California, here, and not any of the parts that get snow. (Closest we get is hail, which feels like it happens maybe twice a decade.) We called it "snow," too. :)

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

French: "neige" is used. Yes, it means snow.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

It's χιόνι which means snow in Greece and we are not very cold.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

That’s for sure